Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1884 — Page 3

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL, - - PußUsmt*.

- —“it-daughter of the Re r. E. P. Roe, the prolific writer of Sunday-School fiction, inherits her father’s weakness, and has a book ready to be issued on her seventeepth birthday, which will be in the early part of next month. The Dutch papers mention the discovery of a “certain cure” for gout. A peasant who was confined to his bed by a sharp attack was stung by a bee, and almost immediately he felt better and next day he was well. A short time after another patient thought he would* try the same remedy, and, having induced a bee to sting him on the part affected, was also cured. Dr. A. E. Brehm, a German naturalist, lecturing in Chicago recently, related his experience in trying, by way of experiment, to intoxicate a baboon. The animal made a wry face at the first taste of liquor, but finally began to like it, and imbibed until it was in reality beastly drunk. Then it slept, and awoke with “a big head.” The doctor thought that this experience would cure his monkeyship from any further desire to indulge, but not so. As soon as he sobered up he wanted more, just like a man. —■ —/ ' . . -

Some interesting statistics regarding the Italian lottery have been published in the Stampa. The sums of money won in 1883 amounted to a total of no less than 44,000,000 francs, with, at the same time, a profit to the State of 27,416,155 francs. During the twelve months the number of tickets sold was 229,622,650, at a total expenditure of 71,826,683 francs. The number of winning tickets was 1,882,063. Forty-four of these entitled their possessors to sums above 1,000 francs each, the two highest amounts won having been 79,800 francs by a person at Turin, and 50,090 francs by another at Naples. Cancer very seldom appears in persons under thirty. It usually comes between forty-five and sixty. It is very rare in tropical countries, and more frequently among the poor than among the rich, among women than among mem and ithas been noticed that among the Trappists, Carmelites and Carthusian monks it is almost unknown, a circumstance ascribed to their abstinence from meat, while it is almost common in mid-Europe, where meat is most eaten. In the Netherlands and Belgium it ha? increased of late years. Immoral influences tend toward its production when they have a bad offect on the digestive organs.

The . conclusions of science are conflicting. It told us we were ruining our health by eating too fast, and then it told us that such was an old fogy notion and we might eat as we pleased. It told us first that early to bed and early to rise would improve our physical status, our financial standing and our understanding; then it told us that was all bosh, and the best time to sleep was when we felt sleepy. It told us we were becoming a nation of dyspeptics by eating white bread, and at once brown bread and oatmeal became the favorite food. Now a scientific chemist comes forward and declares that unbolted flour is harder to digest than white. Is life worth living under these circumstances ? “The latest-ships of the Great Eastern Railway Company, the Norwich and Ipswich,” writes a correspondent to the London Times," "have the advantage of twin screws, double shafting, and duplicate engines, and thus, if any misfortune should happen to the one set of engines to one main shaft, or to one propeller* they can still work on, in storm or in calm, at two-thirds of their speed, and bring their passengers safe to pork It is, I would submit, a question well worthy of serious consideration whether some similar improvements could not be made with regard to ocean-going steamships. Not only would the risks, and even tho certainty occasionally of serious delays, be thus avoided, but also the safety of ocean traveling would undoubtedly be enormously increased.” Mr. Labouchere states in the Truth that an old doctor of New London, Connecticut, where his visit several years ago is still most pleasantly remembered ,informed him that he had selected that lively locality for his residence from finding, in wandering among its tombs, that the ages of decease engraved on them ran to a longer span than he had ever fouud elsewhere. Mr. Labouchere forgot, however, to mention that the interesting Old Mortality to whom he refers, with the delightful diversity of profession which belongs to our elastic country, was not only an eminent specialist, but also a gallant Brigadier-General and an extensive land speculator, with a-large number of New London lots for sale, which latter circumstance may have affected his obituary observatidns. He died at 65. Mexico has no political conventions. ’ ’ .. . > .... I,

I The newspapers do the nominating, The papers begin a discussion of candidates ' about a year previous to the Presidential election. Next they “postulate,” or nominate certain candidates.; At the head of the paper will appear, “We postulate” so and so, naming the journal’s choice. Then, on election day, th-» voters assemble at the polling places, and each deposits a written bal? lot for electors, who are to constitute the Electoral Board of the State. Thq law stipulates that the ballot must bq written, and a table with paper and writing utensils, is provided beside thq ballot box/andTheballot mus6~berwnti T ten and immediately deposited unde? the inspection of the Supervisor. Somes times the voters of the different will meet a few hours previous and agree upon some candidateyihit usually each voter has made a choice of candi- ■ dates without any pressure from parly machinery. Every year, says Texas Siftings, some new facts are being discovered which throw light upon history, or unhinge the beliefs that have become to us a sort of second nature. Careful study and closejanalysis is a good thing, and it is eminently proner that the rising generation should be thoroughly posted upon the history of the country and its heroes. This wise course has evidently been pursued in the schools of Paterson, New Jersey, and, as a result, certain facts have been developed which are both startling and instructive. The birthday of the father of his country was celebrated in the above named town by having the publie school children give in writing the result of their researches, from which we glean the following facts: “George Washington was the greatest man that ever lived in Paterson, New Jersey, and had Washington street named after him. He was seven feet high and three feet wide, and lived in a piazza with a portico. His father gave him a little hatchet because he would not tell a lie, and he used to cut down all the cherry trees. He used to write his name in cabbage heads. When he was a boy everybody used to say: ‘There goes a boy who could not tell a lie.’ If he had lived to the present day he would have been 315 years old. His brother had the small-pox.

The supreme and unutterable idiot who killed a Brooklyn girl the other day because he “didn’t know it was loaded'" has been arrested. It is a question whether such stupidity as he exhibited is not as bad as deliberate malice. Certainly hanging the wretches guilty of it woul’d be quite as likely to dhter others as that penalty deters those who kill from other motives. He was spending the aiternoon with three or four young ladies, and after a pleasant talk asked them if they wished to be mesmerized. He said he was a mesmerist, and they laughingly agreed to put themselves under his influence. They were accordingly seated, and after a few pass® he drew a heavy four-barreled revolver from his hippocket. The young women were frightened, and prayed him to put up the needed it in order to mesmerize them. One of them ran across the room and stcoped behind a chair, remarking that she didn’t like that kind of sleight-of-hand performance. This amused him, and to their consternation he flourished his weapon more than ever, turning it upon Miss Benny. She, being frightened, started to run for the next room. He laughed, cocked his weapon and pulled the trigger. A report was heard, and Miss Benny fell to the floor with a ifcltet'iff Eof forefiMSi W startled them that nobody moved. Then Biley exclaimed: “My God! what have I done ?” Of course he was “sorry,” and “distracted,” and “grieved,” and “didn’t know it was loaded.” But it was loaded, and he, like so many of his idiotic kind, had fooled with it and taken life. Ought not a person endowed with so low an order of intelli: gence be put where he can do no fur-, ther harm ? "When a pet dog or bear or leopard or any other dangerous animal begins to bite and tear those whom it plays with, even in sport, it is generally agreed that they are dangerous and ought to be dispatched. So long as fools can provide themselves with pistols, are they not as perilous as dogs with teeth or bears and leopards with claws? <

Louis XI.

He took a great interest in dogs, anc sent into foreign countries for them: into Spain for one sort, into Bretagm for another, to Valentia for a third, and bought them dearer than the people asked. He sent into Sicily to buy a mule of a private officer in that country, and paid him double the value asked At Naples he caused all the horses and strange creatures to be brought up that could be found; and in Barbary 0 sort of lion, no larger than a fox’; which he called adits. He sent into Sweeden and Denmark for two sorts of beasts those countries afforded, a species ol for each of which ho gave the merchants 4,560 Dutch florins.; Yet when all these varieties were brought him he never valued them, and many times would not so much as t’Oe the persons that brought them to his court.— The

Democratic Im[?]ecflity.

The Democratic House of Congress is demonstrating that, party’s absolute incompetency to meet the obligations it owes to the public. Having urgently sought and ?been t intrusted with the work of formulating national legislation the Democratic members of Congress had it in their hands, at least, to manufacture campaign capital, and to this end their best energies have been bent. But with no coherent idea what was best for the Government, they have naturally fallen to wrangling among themselves, and the cat-hauling has been going on ever since the session opened, with no prospect of harmony, except under the caucus lash and no hope of desirable legislation. The Morrison bill, the only pretense yet made toward serious legislation on the great question of tariff, has been and still is the apple of discord at the Democratic feast. It* satisfies neither one side nor the other of the Democratic party. It is insincere, inconsiderate, and impractical. To save the trouble of considering the merits of the question, the author of it measured everything with a sword and proposed to incontinently cut off a. sword’s length from every dutiable article, regardless of consequences. The bill does not command the confidence of even its “friends. ” But they hope that it will be “a good enough Morgan” until after the November elections; and then, if the party by a stroke of undeserved and Unexpected good luck, should find itself in power, some new expedient may be devised to tide it still further along. The* cry is for something that will succeed. Good people and dear rabble is the cry, ask what you will, you may have it;'only give us the spoils. Needed legislation goes begging, while specious tricks for transient popularity receive the most considerate attention. The old device of cutting down apropriations has again been resoited to, though with little hope of deceiving the public. It. was tried in Indiana, and the people of this State have not forgotten how the low taxes of one year were supplemented the next, and the next, with deficiency bills and money borrowed at interest. It has been tried with the same end in view and with exactly the same result in national legislation. The dodge is too transparent to deceive anybody of intelligence, but it will be tried once more, along with other schemes equally dishonest. The Morrison bill, in some .modified form, maybe passed, probably will be, ever the protests of the better elements of the Democratic party, the hope being that the good of present reduction in the rate of taxation will blind the people to the inevitable outcome of the un-American policy of free trade. Meanwhile the weeks and months are rapidly passing away, and no good is being done at Washington. Even this Morrison bill is still in an unfinished condition, and its supporters are at their-wits’ end to.devise some way to smuggle, rush, or bulldoze it through the House. The Democrats realize that they will have a big fight among themselves, and in anticipation the leaders have arranged to have the usual appropriation bills ready, to throw one in from time to time, to divert attention and give the combatants opportunity to temporarily haul off for repairs and pour ointment on their* many wounds. The Democratic party does not need a leader so much as it needs coherency and principle. It is, united and consistent Only in the desire to get at the public offices. Its campaigns are fought with the utmost desperation, and no scheme is too hostile to our free institutions to be adopted and pushed, if it promises even the slenderest hope of success. The Democratic House is little better than an organized, expensive farce, manifestly afraid to do anything, yet hoping to make a little political capital through appeals to prejudice and ignorance. With no defined purpose beyond that of getting control, by fair means or by foul, it blunders and stumbles, to the disgust and alarm of all not blinded by partisan prejudice. The country will feel easier when adjournment at last comes and the worst is known. — Indianapolis Journal.

State Sovereignty Rkn Mad.

One of the signs of orthodox Democracy that might have been referred to by the experts who were recently called upon in lowa to give the tests of real Democracy is the doctrine of State .sovereignty . This is, to _be a as Calhoun and his nullifying crowd found out to their heart’s content from the herb of New Orleans, but it has in these degenerate days become one of the fetich* s of that party. When the terrible’Visitation of veliow fevef fell upon the South a few years ago the people of the North, animated by the paternal desire to use all the means in their power for the suppression of the pestilence, unanimously sustained the intervention of the General Government with the expenditure of money, the issue of rations, the distribution of shelter-tente, the assignment of army physicians to assist in the care of the sick, in short the fullest exercise of the resources of the central power. But even in that dread emergency, with yellow fever swooping down upon scores of communities, the devotees of this fetich of State sovereignty could not run so fast from the Angel of Death but that they had time to give a kick io the hand that brought them aid. The Bepresentatives of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi yelped, snarled, and snapped at the ( hand that was bringing them the best* it could command of relief and protection. They took all that was offered, but graciously J eminded the giver that his benevolence proceeded on an entirely incorrect theory of the true functions of Federal Government, Precisely the same blind devotion to the nullifying theory that stood ready to take out of Calhoun by the application of a hemp poultice animates the opposition of the Bourbon Senators to the appropriation for the extermination of the cattle-plague, which, whether it be genuine foot-and-mouth disease or not, is contagious and extremely dangerous to the welfare of the people of the whole country. While the germs of disease are spreading from one State to another, threatening to infect all the herds on the ranges in the Territories on their dispersal in the

spring, receiving re-enforcement at the ports on the seacoast where European cattle are being imported, portending the loss if unchecked of millions alike to the owners of cattle and the consumers of meat, all that the Statesovereignty ghosts in the Senate qan find to say is, that the interventibnjof the only adequate power —that .of the natio > would be inconsistent* with their theory of the Constitution. Senator Bayard, who does not find anything out of the way in the use of the sovereign powers of taxation of the Federal Government fo*r the enrichment of the Wilmington Match Company, can only shriek State rights when it is proposed to use those same powers of taxation to protect the food of a nation. We cannot see the sense or the consistency of this theory of Federal powers. The State rights that Senator Bayard, and Senator Pendleton, and Senator Morgan, and Senator Harris are fighting for is the right of States to poison their neighbors’ food and to infect their cattle with a deathdealing disease. If it is not competent for the Federal Government to use its common powers to prevent, such a common calamity then governments are a mockery and have no real: ocial raison d’etre. It would seem as if the late unpleasantness was too short. , It ought to have lasted one campaign longer. The war proved nothing if it did not demonstrate that the Government of this country was a real National Government that could do anything that was demanded by the general welfare. It is not an aggregation of little political patches in each of which there is a minute central postule of sovereignty. There is but one center of sovereignty in this Union, and that is at Washing ton, and its sovereignty is ample for all the needs of the people. There was enough gunpowder consumed during the war to have burned this truth unto any ordinary cuticle.— Chicago Tribune.

He Knows Them.

A New Ybrk publisher of Bibles recently received an extensive ofder from the proprietor of one of Chicago’s largest hofelsT for “fine, showy Bibles, with handsome covers. ” Surprised at the order he asked the hotel man: “What Jo you intend to do with them ?” “Place them in the guests’ rooms. You see I have made arrangement to keep a lot of Democratic delegates to the convention, and I want to give them everything new and novel and what they are unaccustomed to.” “But would you not like to have the hotel’s name stamped on the cover ? It will cost but little and prevent their being stolen,” said the publisher. “Oh, no,” replied the other. “It is unnecessary. They won’t steal them." —Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. The Democratic party has followed the Bepublican party to Chicago. It has utterly failed to agree upon any scheme of tax reduction. If it cannot agree upon any legislative reform in Congress, it cannot in convention. It has flung aside the Ohio Senator wao made an effort to collect the millions which the Pacific railroads owe. It has crushed another Ohio Senator who dared to advocate civil-service reform. Now it is proposed that its nomination shall be tossed about from one millionaire to another till one is found willing to lead it in a mere offic-seeking raid, with nothing inscribed on its banner except “Turn the rascals out.” As a party, it has survived some terrible tests of its vitality, and it may not die of the doses with which its nurses are now cramming its nauseated stomach.— 67. Louis Post-Dispatch {Dem.) The same weapon which Kelly holds over the Democracy of the State he holds over the Democracy of the nation. No general account or plan of action can be made up without Kelly. And this is the party which depends mainly on the cry of purification in high places for its campaign material. There is a law of compensation in politics as well as in other things, and this apparently unavoidable bargain with Tammany, though it may bring into the Democracy a large number of votes in New York City, will enlarge the Bepublican majority in Other parts of the State sufficient to offset it. And Tammany is certainly an is expensive to the Democracy in the country at large.— St. Louis GlobeAll the facts of history are against the “old fraud” of Gramercy Park, and yet he has the mendacity to claim that he suffered wrong in 1876, a wrong which it is now all too s late to rectify. This stuff and fustian cannot bo imposed upon the American people. The court? were open to Tilden at any time after Mr. Hayes had been declared the lawfully elected President of the United States, but the Democratic pretender did not dare to submit the validity of bis title to the scrutiny of an incorruptible judiciary His own party discarded the idea of his having suffered wrong in 1876 by refusing to nomtiate hhn in 1880, and the L'emocrats dare not place themselves in position to try conclusions on this matter next fall.—Cleveland Leader. . Gen. Chalmers, of Mississippi, has addressed an able and eloquent letter to the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Independent party in his State, in which he advises his political adherents to co-operate with the Republicans in favor of' free elections, free schools, and the protection of American industries. <He vigorously denounces the methods of the Democratic party in his State, and charges them with resorting to fraud and force to prevent the honest expression of the people of Mississippi. They have, be says, violated the national and State law to prevent the majority of the voters from pronouncing upon questions of public policy. — Chicago Tribune. The Republican tariff idea boiled down is: ■ American patronage for the mechanic who eats American broad and pays American taxes.

THE BAD BOY.

“Say, I don’t want you around hme ao more,” the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in with his breeches . tucked in his boots, and wanted to borrow a fish-pole. “I have noticed you lately going around a good deal with that ‘sheeny’ boy. Those Jews are no good, and if you go with that boy you wdl be ruined. *Now keep away from here until you let that boy alone," and the grocery man looked mad, though he was polite enough when a Jewish lady, who Lves in the same block, came in and bought some groceries. “Well, what’s the matter with that boy?” asked the bad boy, the blood coming to his face indignantly. “Has he done anything that wasn’t right? I have never seen a boy that was any straighter than he is.” “That don’t make any” odds. Jews are all alike. That boy will cheat you out of your eye teeth. He will pinch a penny until tue goddess of liberty will grunt. You ask your pa what he thinks about your going with Jew boys,” and the grocery man looked as though, if his advice was taken, the bad boy would be saved.

“O, go way,” said the bad boy. “Pa says he had just as soon borrow money of*’ a Jew as anybody. Say, that ‘sheeny’ boy, as you call. him, has done me more good than any boy I ever played with. He has taught me more about the proper way to treat my parents than anybody. You ought to see him at liome. He never plays any jokes on his parents, and is just as tender to his ma as though she was his best girl. His ma isn’t very healthy, and he is always on the lookout for something he may do to save her a step, or make her enjoy herself. His pa is a close trader in business, but at home the family has a regular picnic all the time. There is never anything but smiles in their house, and the poor who come there to beg always go away with baskets full, and if the baskets are too heavy, this ‘sheeny’ boy that you abuse goes and helps carry the baskets home for them. He will work all day to put up a swing fol poor neighbor’s children and furnish the rope. I have seen him unscrew the top of his little savings bank and take all the money out to give away to those who are destitute. And hi« father and mother encourage him in doing good. Why, he is the tenderesthearted boy I ever saw, and I am going to stand by him. I don’t care a darn whether his nose is put on sideways or endways, whether he says, ‘/ins du kosch,’ or ‘tra-la-la,’ as long as his heart is as big as a peck measure, and as tender as new asparagus, he is a friend of mine, and don’t you forget it.” “Well,” said the grocery man, a little taken back, “this one may be all right, but you ought to know that the Jews crucified Christ, and you ought to have some pride about you, and go back on them like the rest of us. It is fashionable to abuse Jews. ” “O, give us a rest,” saM the boy, mad enough to kick somebody. Suppose a few of them did lynch a man eighteen hundred years ago, they didn’t know what they were about. Didn’t Christ say so, and didn’t He forgive them ? If the one crucified could forgive them, what are you monkeying about at this late day ? You poor old fraud haven’t got any right to make that old affair a personal matter, and put on any style over the people better than you are. I have never heard of a Jew being in jail or in a poor house. They don’t steal. They don’t put sand in their sugar. I never knewa Jew to refuse to contribute to any charitable object, or to turn a deserving applicant *for assistance away from his door. Some of them may be-as mean as some of us United States fellows, but they have got to be awful mean if they are. Was the crucifixion of Christ the only crime that was ever committed iff this world that should be remembered, and the people prejudiced against the perpetrators? Your ancestors in New England burned people at the stake on account of their religious convictions. Suppose every New Englander who wears spectacles and eats beans should be looked upon as you look upon the Jews, because their forefathers roasted Christians on the half shell, what kind of a society would we have, any way ? Their religion is none of your business or mine, but you- could learn a go<4 deal that would her efit youif y ouconldattend their synagogue for a few months and listen to the teachings of a good rabbi. The only thing I have against them is that they won’t let their young people marry amongst our folks, but they will get oyer that some day. If the Jews should get to marrying Gentiles there would be a stop put to some of the extravagance of the Gentiles, and it would be millions of dollars in the pockets of the people.” “Well, they won’t eat pork,” said the grocer, as a last argument against the Jews. “Any people that will go back on one of the greatest products of this country are to blame, »If the Jews would eat pork it would go up two cents a pound in a week.” “Oh you darn Old fool,” said the bad boy, perfectly disgusted. “That is a pretty argument. Whisky is as great a product of the country as pork, and you don t drink whisky, so you go back on a great national product the same as they do. They don’t need pork in their business, and you don’t need whisky in yours, and neither of you have to use it. No, Air. Until you can show me some reason for going back on my ‘ sheeny ’ friend, besides the fact that his ancestors did a wrong eighteen hundred years ago, and the fact that he is not mashed on porVnpare ribs, he can consider Hennery his friend, and I will follow the examples of kindness and charity which he always displays, and in time I may see that there is a good deal of fun in the world without playing tricks on the people Now give, me that fish-pole,” and the boy went out, leaving the grocer thinking what a fool he had made of himself. — Peck’s Sun. .v ■' - .- A Connecticut girl writes to a Hartford p.*per to say that she caught a mouse with her hands and strangled it. Dr.,, Dio Lewis say? that American women need more sunshine- ,

POSTOFFICE FIGURES.

Some Curious Features of the PMtal Service. The report of the Sixth Auditor for the Postoffice Department for the fiscal year 1888 shows that but fifteen States and two Tterrltortes supported their postal sorvioe and furnished revenue for the Government. The States are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,' Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Delaware, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, aud Minnesota. One of the Territories, singularly enough, is Alaska. The other Is Dakota. The following table gives the receipts, expenditures, and excess of reeeUts over expenditures in the States and Territories above named: ' Expend!-Excess of Receipts. tnres. receipts. Maine S63OfMS $585,896 844,618 New Hampshire.. 571.084 308,019 63,065 Vermont 330,708 327,467 12,330 Massachusetts.... 2,999,683 1388.222 1,111,461 Rhode Island 332,643 183,024 149,618 Connecticut 882,662 644,114 238,548 New- York. 8,166,559 5,352329 2,813.729 New Jersey....... 960J86 710,682 249,603 Pennsylvania 4,048,738 3,061367 987,170 Delaware 103,748 81,446 22,301 Michigan .... . .... 1,595,779 1,261.868 333,902 Illinois., 3,834,396 2,982,077 852,319 Wisconsin 1,096,144 979,289 115354 lowa 1,477,336 1,375368 101,468 Minnesota. 875,057 870,663 5,004 Alasa. 407 177 230 Dakota. 313,169 291,993 21,176 An analysis of the table shows that the six States yielding the largest revenue are New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, and Connecticut. In Ohio, a State With a population greater than Illinois at the last census, the receipts were only $2,900,038, against s3.i-84,3H6 in Illinois—a difference of nearly $1,000,000 In favor of the latter. The expenditures in the two States were $3,330,198, against $2,982,077. The result is that the postal service in Ohio failed to support itself by a deficit of $430,160, whereas Illinois yielded a profit to the Government of $862,819. It is not surprising that New York, with its overflowing population and its diversified industrial pursuits, should add a handsome Increase to the revenue of the Poetoffice Department;but who would expect Alaska, instinctively associated’in our minds with all that is bleak, barren, uninhabitable, to furnish a surplus of receipts 6ver ewpenditures? This she did to the amount of s23o—an increase relatively as great as that of the Empire State. The postal service in the Southern States has been a dead loss from the creation of the Government. Not a dollar of revenue has ever been received from a State south of Season and- -Dixon’s line, though the following table, covering a period of five years, shows a gradual lessening of this deficit that leads the postoffice officials to predict that, a few years hence, when the country shall become more thickly settled, it will, as a section, be self-support-ing: Excess'of Expend!- exjSendiBeceipts. tares tares. 1879..........55,331,71157,964,261 $2,633,223 1880 6,066,305 9,059,819 2,993314 1881. . 6,836308 10,163,453 3,327,144 J 682. 7,676,326 9.792,032 2,112,Tu6 1883 8,842,603 19,468372 2,026,268 It will be seen that the excess of expenditures over receipts in the South reached its highest point in 1881—53,327,144. Two years later it bad fallen to $2,026,288, a practical increase of $1,101,000.

ON A WELL-FOUGHT FIELD.

Anniversary Observances of Grand ArmyVeterans of the Hattie of Shiloh. [Shiloß (Tenn.) Telegram.] The steamers John Gilbert and W. F. Nesbit left this point on the 6th inst. for Pittsburg Landing, having about 400 excursion ists on board, mostly members of the Grand Army of the Republic from Illinois, Indiana, and lowa. When the excursionists landed a column was formed, and the party marched to the national cemetery, where the band played ’ a dead march. The men stood with uncovered heads, many with tears running down their cheetet as- they looked around, and saw the melancholy array of marble slabs which marked the graves of dead comrades. The column then marched to the platform erected for the speakers at the western end of the cemetery. Prominent among those present were Gens. M. R. M. Wallace, D. C. Smith, T. L. Dickey, Cols. J. L. Godfrey, W. T. Shays, Maj. B. Bingham. Capts. 8. S. Garrett, IL B. Hinkle, T. D. Patterson, F. M. Kyle, 8. L. Ensengo, George C. Jeuterieg, T. J. Bryant, H. 8. Cicek, David Jones, Judson UcCor, Fred A. Smith, Charles Van Gorden, A. H. Versbey, D. C. Andress, W. T. Russell, and C. P. Searle. All the above-named took part in the battle of Shiloh as Federal officers. The Kev. Thomas Cotton, a local preacher, explained that the small assemblage was due to the fact that many people had been scared away .in consequence of a small-pox scare, and Capt. H. R. Hinkle, of Savannah, Tenn., a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, heartily deplored that there were no representative Tennesseans from the Confederate army to welcome the visitors. The Hon. T. D. Smith, of Illinois, was the orator of the day, and delivered a stirring speech eulogistic of the dead of both armies. Gen. T. Lyle Dickey, Judge of the Supreme Court of Illinois, followed in an eloquent address, giving some interesting personal experiences of the battle of Shiloh. The audience had by this time been considerably increased by country people, and all joined in the singing of several hymns. The entire day was spent in visiting points of interest sn the field, and at 6 o’clock the boats left on their return trip.

ASKING FOR LOWER POSTAGE.

Two Chicago Editors Make Arguments In Favor of Reduced Newspaper Bates. [Washington Djapatch.] Joseph Medill, of the Chicago TrQnme. argued before the Senate Postoilice Committee in favor of reducing the present postage rates on newspapers.. He claimed that the law laid an oppressive tax on publishers, and those who were not making money were compelled to borrow meoey to pay the postage in advance. At the present rate the postage per year on one copy of a paper the eize of the New York Herald or Chicago Tribune was from $1 to $1.60 pbr year. In many cats-, such postage rates represented the entire profit of the paper. The press, Mr, Medill said, did not think it fair that they should be compelled to bear the burden of the present rate. At present express companies were doing tho best of the business, but if the rate was reduced to $1 per 100 pounds nearly all newspapers would be carried in the mails. He was satisfied that anything that increased the circulation of papers multiplied the letter postage. He thought newspaper publish era, having borne a heavy burden for ten years, were entitled tp some ’relief. The result of the reduction would be such an increase in the number of papers sent as would give the Postofllce Department a larger revenue than ever. Mr. Hesing, of .the Chicago StaaUZrifuno, declared that he had found it to be a fact that the people who did uot read the papers made but little use of the mails. If the price of postage should be reduced it would mdßrlally help small papers now barely able to struggle along. —->a. ■»■■■■■' ,

Drunkenness and Laziness on the Jeannette.

In the Jeannette investigation aS Washington. Fireman Bartlett testified that he had frequently seen Lients. Danerihower and Chlpp, Engineer Melville, and Dr. Ambler intoxicated on board the shfpand during the retreat. They drank a Russian drink called “quash."' He saw Melville drunk probably a half-dozen times. The survivors, be said, were within six days’journey of where De Long and Melville were found, but remained Inactive three months before organising a relief expedition to search for the missing pnes. ‘ ; \ Ed Exons, who killed Jim Fisk, will run the Rockaway Bdach Hotel this season.